The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-09-14
THE PRESIDENTS TOUR.
Why He May Be Assured of = Hearty
Welcoma Wherever He Goes.

THE PRESIDENTS TOUR.
Why He May BE Assured of = Hearty
Welcome Wherever He Goes.
Sometimes more than personal in
terest attends the proposed tour Ct
President Cleveland. We like to see
an eminent man, to be, as it were, in
touch with him, to look upon his face.
to hear his voice. There is the re-
spect which society pays to authority.
and especially where the authority |
embodies the Nations dignity.
Journeys Of those who govern States !
are useful exhibitions of authority. I!
Diligent application to duty in an ex-
ecutive or Legislative chamberis neces-
sary to an enlightened discharge of
authority, but a wider range of enlight-
eminent results from occasional contact
with the people, especially with the
people who remain at home and donot
60 to Washington. MIR. Cleveland has
not had the advantage of extended per-
sonal observation of the United States.
A sedentary profession, the necessity
Of labor, continuous public duty in
minor offices and an early election to
the Presidency have made hitherto inn
practicable the journey he now pro-
poses.
Mr.. Cleveland will see what no Pres
ident since Mr.. Pierce could have seen
"a united country, country glad to
welcome it's Chief Magistrate wherever
he goes, the open hand and the hearty
welcome. If Mr.. Buchanan had made
such progress he would have found
d1strust in the South and sullenness
in New England, faces reddening with
the anger that was soon to flame into
war, sectional sentiment that would
have made sincere attention to a Ma
tional Chief Magistrate impossible.
While Grant and Garfield and Hayes
would have had courteous welcome
in the South, it would have been a
courtesy disagreeable from its ostenta-
ton. 1t is to be regretted that this
feeling existed, and an inquiry into its
causes would be painful. So long as
any Chief Magistrate represented the
spirit of conquest he would have the
welcome of conquered provinces-con'
strained, unnatural ceremonious-
and so long as human nature is what
we have learned it to be from the ex
perience of ages we could expect moth
: ing more.
Mr.. Cleveland, however. represents
the National sentiment rs it has beef
seen in no Administration since tn
first years of Mr.. Pierce, before the re
peal of the Missouri compromise came
. with evil omen to menace the Union
Mr.. Cleveland is the President OF tn
whole people. There We're no bayo
nets behind the ballots which electe
: him; no reflected bayonet powe
CLEANS in the authority he wields
9 The intellect, the culture, the wealth
a the character of the North and Sout
Q will unite to do him honor. The SO
d diers of the Union will receive him a
d the first representiye they have see
n of that entirely reconstructed Unio
u which they imperilled their lives
n save. As an evidence of this sent
n ment-a restored Union and peopl
e in concord, nation saved against tt
: folly and madness of so many Of j,
II leaders, Union such as Washingto
It and jackson governed, Union of il
II terest, sympathy and tradition, ar
7: not merely of geographical lines-tl
L journey of Mr.. Cleveland will have
Ie National value. And wherever he go
u he may take with him assurance Of
hearty welcome, not merely as u Chi
G. magistrate, but as MANN. Y lie
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